The Spring Festival is expected to send passengers up to 2.541 billion visitors

BEIJING, January 30 (Xinhua) The 2010 Spring Festival January 30 was opened by Wang, Lin Hongmei.　　In the 40 days before and after the Spring festival, 2.541 billion people in the country are expected to carry out a large flow of East and west, up 7.7% from the same period last year. The Spring Festival is known as the largest cyclical migration in human history.　　In order to ensure that the vast number of passengers to go well, the relevant departments of our country actively deploy capacity, in highways, waterways, railways, civil aviation and other aspects of strengthening the Organization, strengthen supervision and comprehensive deployment arrangements for the Spring Festival. According to He Jianzhong, a spokesman for the Ministry of Transportation, the passenger traffic of the highway and waterway will maintain a high growth trend this year. It is predicted that the national highway passenger traffic will reach 2.27 billion people, up from the same period last year 7.5%, waterway passenger traffic volume of about 32 million people, the year-on-year growth of 3.6%. During the Spring Festival, the national road transport industry will invest 820,000 large and medium-sized buses, the average daily frequency of 2.2 million, the country will invest about 20,000 passenger ships, nearly 800,000.　　He Jianzhong stressed that around the change in passenger flow, in time to add overtime cars and chartered, to meet the needs of the general public travel.　　In the waterway transport, the cross-Strait during the Spring Festival, in peacetime, 14 direct vessels outside the arrangement of 5 spare ships, so that Fujian coast to Taiwan Island and Kinmen, Matsu, Penghu passenger routes total capacity reached nearly 5000, compared to the original increase of 1400. The railway department is expected to send 210 million passengers this year, an increase of 18.2 million people, a growth of 9.5%, the daily average of 5.25 million people. This year's Railway Spring Festival, the passenger flow is relatively moderate, after the high concentration of passenger flow.　　The national railroad will arrange the direct passenger running line 323 pairs, adopts the basic plan, the preliminary plan, the contingency plan three sets of echelon capacity plan, respectively should deal with the normal flow, the peak passenger flow, the sudden passenger flow. The official of CAAC said the passenger traffic volume of civil aviation is expected to reach 28.94 million during the spring Festival, an increase of 12.5%. Up to now, civil aviation has arranged for more than 6,500 overtime in China, besides the traditional hot cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Chengdu, Chongqing, Wenzhou and other tourist cities such as Sanya, Haikou, Kunming, Harbin, etc., the density of the flights connecting the small cities is also strengthened.　　At the same time, the Civil Aviation Bureau requires airlines to arrange transportation reasonably, to ensure smooth passenger transport and important items in the festival, according to market demand to arrange the mainland 31 navigation points and Taiwan's overtime or charter flights, to ensure that cross-strait travel convenient and smooth. The Spring Festival in 2010 lasts for 40 days from January 30 to March 10.